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sbisson ([personal profile] sbisson) wrote2003-03-25 07:57 am
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Chasing the Minotaur: a new email client

I've been on a quest for many years: for the perfect email client. Recently I've settled on using Mozilla as my main email tool - but that entails having the bloat of the rest of the browser, when I'd rather be using Phoenix or IE, or Safari or Camino.

But it looks like the wait may soon be over, at least according a post on the Mozilla blog, Blogzilla - Minotaur is approaching it's first public alpha release. A seperate email client, based on Mozilla's mail code, it's intended to be cross platform and with a consistant mail focused UI.

I'm looking forward to it.
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[identity profile] neilf.livejournal.com 2003-03-25 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Natalie and I are both currently using GyazMail which does quite a good job and, for me at least, is easier to get on with than Mail.app.

Minotaur does sound interesting, definitely something to watch out for.

[identity profile] lproven.livejournal.com 2003-03-25 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh! I've been waiting for that. Still haven't found anything sufficiently clearly better than Ameol to tempt me away from it so far. Mozilla's mail&news support works close enough to how I do to look very tempting, even though [livejournal.com profile] kjersti (An Agent/Eudora user) shudders with revulsion. I shudder with revulsion at Agent, and while I can and do use Eudora, it's a bizzare mixture of Byzantine complexity and plain ol' clunkiness.

Sod Imap, though. Server storage requirements are astronomical these days; it's sometimes awkward and nonstandard to configure; it's not quick; I do not want to trust my ISP to hold my mail store, thankyou; and POP3 is so widely supported it will be a VAST task to move across. Nice idea, ain't gonna happen soon.
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